The guest speaker explains the appeal of being unreachable and using a plain text editor, like Vim, which allows their website to withstand the test of time for hundreds of years.
Computer scientist Sebastian Seung compares the different ways one can write code to the styles of writing essays, highlighting the importance of clean, parsimonious code for programming beginners. He also discusses how asking the right questions and understanding the context is key to a successful interview.
The host discusses the challenges of programming episodes during the pandemic and how the absence of hair and makeup affected the show's format.
A discussion on the benefits and drawbacks of using abstraction in programming, including the limitations it places on what may be left behind, and how it affects communication and understanding between different cultures and languages.
After working at PBI in the UK, the speaker moved on to programming, preferring to learn new languages and work on programming instead of staying in a company where unless you were at the very top, it wasn't very interesting.
A personal journey of how the speaker learned how to code despite initially avoiding it, to make him less reliant and more self-sufficient. He shares how starting with building gaming systems and simple information systems sparked his interest, and how he slowly started to find it fascinating.
